Happiness is...

Some lighthearted and some serious stories.  Hope everyone is okay and staying healthy.  Thinking of this site and happiness, for me happiness is listening to my music wherever I am.  My happy place this time of year is the lake, so listening to music looking out at the sun sparkling on the water is happiness.  

That is interesting, @asvjerry , and similar to this:

going back to around when the tale I recounted started, a friend of mine who I had worked with from ’85 through ’87 called me to touch base, and to make a long story short, he had just got a stent put in the, from his description, I believe may have been the  left anterior descending coronary artery.  Unlike me, he eats good food and exercises, but he also drinks and smokes pot and there is a family history of coronary artery disease. Anyway, he said he had been feeling like something wasn’t right when he was riding his bike and his doc set him up with a stress test and they told him he had a major blockage going on and needed a stent asap.  So he got it and he said he felt great afterwards.

I frequently feel as if "something is not quite right" but I also know how a little knowledge can create a psycho somatic experience.  However, I got to thinking that my own sedentary lifestyle and eating habits may have caught up with me also, so therefore, during one of these spells where the left side of my chest was "feeling a little funny," I got the VA to do the cardiac stress test.  Which they said I passed with flying colors.  Which is not a true indicator of everything going on in there, but it did make me feel better at the time.

Then a couple of years later was when I started palpating and listening and hearing a skipped beat, and the more I listened and felt my pulse, the more frequent it seemed, and I also thought I was feeling mild palpations.  Which is about the time my neighbors 50 some year old wife, who appeared to be in great shape (but she did smoke cigarettes and I think there may have been a family history), went into cardiac arrest and died.  It was then I decided maybe I needed to have another check done which prompted the call to the VA where they put me on with a triage nurse who played 20 questions with me and decided to error on the side of better safe than sorry and hence, I went to the local ED.

This was the doc that told me to quit checking my pulse.  And for the most part I have quit checking my pulse, and when I do, I haven’t picked up the skipped beat.  So I am willing to concede that the mind is a funny but powerful thing that can have funny but powerful effects.  And as I also typed previously, I think having a tiny bit of knowledge on my part is not necessarily a good thing.

Oh well . . . ramble on. . . .

@asvjerry no doubt, I have lasting effects from my own heart issues.

@immatthewj they can put you into a tube a scan all your vessels and find if there is any blockage. I suspect they won't order it with your symptoms but always a possibility. Some day you can probably just ask the TSA for all your scans and you can AI it with your phone and learn the day you will die.

....weighing in on @unclewilbur 's query.... 

There's also a void in my cheap 5 disc player where discs disappear.

How the heck does that happen?

....that's....hard to interpret in some ways, but....here goes.

Did you put 5 in the tray and one disappeared when re-opened?

Do you load it only in the dark?  Do you load it when your are?

Do you smell melting polycarbonate?

Get it gone...out of the house and your life.
Read about this happening on X ... Demonic possessions, pets that hate certain CD's because of the frequencies you can't hear but makes them do weird things, a mini-black hole has somehow nested in That recess in the tray....

Send it to me immediately...I know what to do with this sort of thing, and more than happy to help out a fellow 'phile....👍
 

....if the same sort of thing moves to any other piece of your gear, don’t hesitate to send it as well.
Maybe send all of it so I can analyze the issue proper...one of those ’synergistic’ things everyone chats about ’round here...

Is your house built on an unknown burial ground?

Maybe ’you’ in another dimension wonders why his players’ tray gets stuck all the time by a 6th disc that just f’n appears....no clue on his part either.

All we have to determine which one things are ’from’ and where ’to’...
...and which one are we in the 37....or is it 38?